The feat was repeated by Zhang, who big-banged Joyce in the third round of their rematch last September at OVO Arena Wembley. It led him back to Saudi Arabia, where he suffered his lone other career defeat in an August 2022 decision to Filip Hrgovic in Jeddah. The IBF title eliminator saw Hrgovic advance into title contention.
Bivol feels that he is on the cusp of realising his dream. “Of course I’m happy because when I signed the contract to be a pro boxer I had a goal, to be undisputed champion,” he said. “Even the fight against Canelo, it was my ticket to big fights. Now I’m happy.
As with many Adult Swim series, it operates on a certain amount of stoner logic, and uses its abbreviated runtime to its advantage; by the time you realize how ridiculous any episode might be, it’s already over. Despite his distinctive, oft-parodied voice, Tyson is not much of a voice actor, but his flat, slightly befuddled line delivery adds to the charm of it all. Like “The Hangover,” “How I Met Your Mother,” and many more less accomplished projects, the premise of “Mike Tyson Mysteries” only works if you find the presence of Tyson to be inherently funny.
Both are consenting adults and if they want to fight and the TDLR approves Tyson with a clean bill of health, then no one can really stand in their way. These are the kinds of spectacles that get put on these days in combat sports and this is the most polarizing one yet. The best-case scenario is the fight gets classified as an exhibition and the two have a friendly, yet physical sparring match, kind of like Tyson vs. Jones Jr. As Coppinger noted, those two weren’t throwing with bad intentions back in November 2020, but the crowd still went home satisfied with the event. Frankly, this is all about entertainment anyway, not real sports competition. And that’s OK if taken at face value. — Raimondi
Wildheart (10-2, 4 KOs), 30, who is from Sweden but trains in England, stepped in on 24 hours’ notice but was in terrific condition and not shy of getting on the front foot. Mayer’s accuracy was decisive, though, catching Wildheart with right hooks from the third round and then became increasingly dominant as the fight went on.
For expositional purposes, Finding Mike will cover Tyson’s teenage experiences that motivated him to become a boxer. The film will also show how Tyson became Heavyweight champion, at age 20, by knocking out Trevor Berbick in 1986. From there, the Tyson biopic will underline the subject’s pop culture persona, leading up his shocking 1990 loss to James “Buster” Douglas. Also, it’s impossible to ignore Tyson’s 1991 arrest for rape, and how he lost several years of his boxing prime after being incarcerated from April 1992 to March 1995. Upon being released, Tyson won four consecutive boxing matches before losing twice to Evander Holyfield, with one of the bouts involving Tyson’s biting off a chunk of his opponent’s ear – now an infamous pop culture moment from the late ’90s.
From 1992 to 1995, while in prison for the rape of Desiree Washington, Tyson read a large number of books, including works by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong. Spike Lee sent Tyson a copy of tennis player Arthur Ashe’s deathbed memoir, Days of Grace. Tyson was moved by the book and respected Ashe’s ability to be nonconfrontational and admired his political views and his success as a black athlete site in yahoo.com a white-dominated world. Tyson got prison tattoos of both men on his biceps: A portrait of Mao, captioned with “Mao” in all-caps, on the left; a portrait of Ashe beneath the words “Days of Grace” on the right. Gerald Early views the Mao and Ashe tattoos as together “symboliz both newfound self-control and his revision of black cool”, with Mao representing strength and authority. Clifton Brown in The New York Times describes the Ashe tattoo as “a contradiction” with Tyson’s “fits of rage”. Early and biographer Richard Hoffer cast the two bicep tattoos as an unusual combination of, in Hoffer’s words, “alternate icons”.
Although the design of the Mike Tyson tattoos has remained virtually unchanged since its creation, from time to time he has made minor changes or additions to the pattern. These changes reflect Tyson’s changing tastes and preferences.
On March 4, 1985 Tyson stepped into the ring for his first professional fight. He had studied boxing history and watched old newsreel footage of the great fighters of the past and wanted to emulate them. He entered the ring without fanfare, without a robe, without socks, dressed in black with the most menacing and intimidating glare in boxing. Many of his opponents were
Wilder fires back and Zhang staying in the pocket. Rough-housing inside and Wilder is playing a dangerous game. He finally pivots out. But Zhang puts him into the corner again and rips to the body. Wilder cannot get backed up like this. Zhang’s size is too big a weapon in there.
Zhang’s wife, Jiang Huanhuan (蒋欢欢), is a retired starting pitcher for the Henan provincial softball team. They met in 1998, started dating in 2000, and married in December 2006. They have a son, born 2010. Zhang rarely visits his wife and son in China due to problems re-entering the United States.